The original b/w strip in my newspaper had the solid black to indicate a deep color. Unfortunately, that leaves the colorist little to work with here. Same with the black pants, which could in theory be some solid color.
We added salt to ours. But we found they were too attractive — one night went out and saw lines of snails and slugs heading for the cups from the neighboring yards — the cups were filled to the brim with the “early birds” and the next were just crawling over them.
As a listener to WCLV decades ago, this brings to mind Mr and Mrs Garvey’s cover of Fugacity which Bob Conrad used to close the Saturday Night program (what became Weekend Radio in syndication).
Make the cone with a deep-fried slice of turkey.